<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Ali,<br><br></div>Facebook was built for and is meant for *sharing*! With time, I have seen FB make us want to share more and more, recommend to us 'friends' at every turn and inevitably there will be a clash between the sharing and our privacy!<br><br></div>Also, there was a time our Newsfeeds were very clean, you'd actually get to know what your friends were upto, but I do find its now looking unrecognizable; its become this very noisy marketplace! Or maybe I am gettitng old :-)<br></div><div><br>Privacy unfortunately plays 2nd fiddle to sharing. For me, the straw that broke the proverbial camels back is seeing photos that I had taken on my phone already auto-uploaded and semi-shared in my timeline, and with an absent minded click, I would have shared all on the my timeline!<br><br></div>I got the app off my phone immediately, but kept the web desktop as I do continue to use it once in a while.<br><br></div>I have also seen that FB has been collecting all our Phone records, calls + SMS as written about on Verge...<br><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/25/17160944/facebook-call-history-sms-data-collection-android">https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/25/17160944/facebook-call-history-sms-data-collection-android</a><br><br></div>So, I guess if you're still using FB on Android, you gotta be 'strong'!<br><br></div><div>P.S<br></div><div>Does FB and other Apps synchronize their data policies with those of the users home country?<br></div><div><br></div>Regards<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 6:04 AM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Listers</div><div><br></div><div>Hope you all had a great weekend. Here’s an interesting article on the ongoing Facebook fallout.</div><div><br></div><div>Excerpt:-</div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">I spent the evening with a friend who is far bolder than me. Having deactivated his <a href="https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=72be6926f14318baaea3a7380b00c95467207ed12354af5a388d60d1b5ede0afbdd78c249b8c1f825a3519c8563f1652ec3ff8a6232f4164" style="outline:none" target="_blank">Facebook</a> profile three years ago, he upped the ante this week by deleting his Instagram account. Even more drastically, he plans officially to <em>delete</em> his long-dormant Facebook account—the last vestige of his serfhood in Mr. Zuckerberg’s fiefdom—sometime very soon, after his girlfriend has had an opportunity to port its photos elsewhere. (He prefers offline storage.)</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Read on:-</span></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://view.email.fortune.com/?qs=55840ef3733ec70e7bbf70681a1fdf4ef688af63cc3bc7eef1a6466871482204b1da0994a47ddc4eb36e55eca2c6a6c64c45c7cb49127419dc577951543699845cefb5000f8f8cbb" target="_blank">https://view.email.fortune.<wbr>com/?qs=<wbr>55840ef3733ec70e7bbf70681a1fdf<wbr>4ef688af63cc3bc7eef1a646687148<wbr>2204b1da0994a47ddc4eb36e55eca2<wbr>c6a6c64c45c7cb49127419dc577951<wbr>543699845cefb5000f8f8cbb</a></div><br>Regards<div><br><div id="m_1844719163085116495AppleMailSignature"><div><span><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span><b>Principal</b></span></div><div><b style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">+254 0713 601113 </div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><br></div><div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><font></font></span><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.<wbr>com/in/alihkassim</a></span></p><font><br></font></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." ~ Aristotle</span></div><div><br></div><div><span><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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